Thank you! Thank you for what’s in the Bible church and home editions. Thank you for making the Bible so accessible to kids without talking down to them, or turning the Bible into a book of moral lessons, Thank you for the podcast which I listen to every Wednesday night as I am cleaning up from our kids clubs, Thank you for tackling difficult subjects with intellect and humor. Please keep doing what you are doing, LOVE it.

I have enjoyed listening to every episode you have released. I want to thank you for sharing your wisdom and being the highlight of my week. I listen to you while I deliver pizza.

Indigogo, similar to kickstarter, has been used to raise funds to make t-shirts and things like that. The Fred Rogers company was looking into using them to raise money to restore The Great Space Coaster.

I feel that if you were to use a service like this to raise money for silk screening t-shirts it would be low budget. There is a place I heard of here in Pittsburgh that let’s you use their equipment as long as you bring the shirts and color. This could be an inexpensive way to make shirts, especially if you find a few volunteers to make them for you.

Also I wanted to inform you about a service at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. I was in the animation program and a class that was required, “Creative and Collaborative Project Management”, let us work directly with a client that needed artwork/animation. The client has to donate a minimum of $100 to the school. It is a quarter program that if needed could extend into another quarter. So for $100 you can essentially hire three to five artists to create concept work or in your case maybe a little animation for the intro to your podcast. Although I do love the live songs every week. Also they could make the concept work for different T-Shirt designs.

These are just things I thought about listening to you show this week. Sorry if this is more than a comment!

I asked the question on the Phil Vischer Podcast FaceBook page requesting your view on whether you consider Mormons to be under the umbrella of Christianity. I was disappointed in your answer for several reasons.
1. Saying that only those who embrace the Nicene Creed are Christians discounts the word Christian itself.
2. You don’t own the term Christian, so you should clarify your brand of Christianity if you want to clarify other brands.
3. It negatively effects the cause of Goodness when you exclude those who self identify as Christian, especially when they are living according to His teachings.

First, the Nicene Creed was written by men who were not prophets nor apostles. This already sets it on tenuous ground. You say that you can’t be Christian if you don’t believe in this non-scriptural statement about “The Trinity.” What is to stop you from saying that any/all Christian denominations you choose are not Christian since all Christian sects teach differing doctrine?

Let’s step back and reflect on the word “Christian.” By definition it means one who believes the teachings of Jesus Christ. I would add that they have to follow his teachings as they understand them. The Scriptures elaborate that it is also those who take upon themselves the name of Christ. You could qualify that it is one who believes the only way to live with The Father again is via Jesus Christ. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also know as a Mormon or Latter-day Saint, meets all these requirements.

Your statement that to be Christian is to be one who conforms to the Nicene Creed is a bad argument. To be Christian is to be Trinitarian? You should just call yourself Trinitarian instead of Christian. I get that you don’t like some of what we preach about Christ and His Gospel. I think you should say that it’s just not your brand of Christianity. Maybe a better approach is to say that you are a Protestant Christian, Trinitarian Christian, or a Nicene Christian and that I, as a Latter-day Saint, am a Mormon Christian. To throw Mormons out of the Christian umbrella is your unilateral, arbitrary prejudice.

I’ve heard people claim that Mormons don’t believe in the same Jesus Christ that evangelical Christians do, but that is a patent lie. The same Jehovah from the old testament is the same Jesus Christ from the New Testament, is the same Jesus Christ who visited the other sheep in the America of the Book of Mormon, is the same Jesus Christ that talked with Joseph Smith in a vision. We might disagree about some finer points of doctrine that Christ and his prophets teach. You might not believe yet that Joseph Smith saw Jesus or that Book of Mormon events happened, but you can’t honestly and informatively deny that we worship the same Christ, the Only Begotten of The Father.

A Pew report says that “the number of people who say they are unaffiliated with any particular faith today is more than double the number who say they were not affiliated with any particular religion as children.” It does no good for the cause of Christ to draw a line in the sand that “Mormons aren’t Christian” and preach this ignorance in your sermons. United together as fellow Christians, we could make the world a better place. You would rather kick us off your team than win the game? That sounds un-Christlike, especially for someone who claims to be Christian.

The Pew Report also highlights that the U.S. is “A Very Competitive Religious Marketplace.” I think you are scared of our 80,000 missionaries. Apparently, you don’t trust your own congregations to examine Mormonism and judge for themselves because, historically, even whole congregations have converted to Mormonism. The false witness being preached that Mormons are somehow not Christian it simply to scare your adherents into not looking at greener pastures. I suspect that this irrational word play has more to do with your individual Churches’ money collections and not about sharing the Gospel of Love.

The Pew Report goes on that “the United States is on the verge of becoming a minority Protestant country.” Of course you are right that we are not Protestant against the Catholic Church. Mormons are really Restorative of Christ’s Church. But I affirm that we are united in being Christian, even if you want to deny it.

I want you to know that every time you said the word “Christians” during your first 100 podcast episodes, I counted myself in that group.